Ramesh joins row over Jinnah drawing on Hindu mythology

Bhopal, Sept 12 (PTI) Union Minister and senior
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh Saturday waded into controversy
over M A Jinnah by comparing the Pakistan founder to one of
the Hindu trinity of pantheons--Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.

In an apparent reference to expelled Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh's praise of Jinnah and the
support he got from some party leaders, Ramesh said BJP "does
not have much love for Jinnah but it hates Jawaharlal Nehru
and the hatred for Nehru has transformed into love Jinnah".

He said Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Jinnah were
the "Brahma (creator), Vishnu (provider) and Shiva (destroyer)
of undivided India".

"Who were the Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva of unidivided
India? Brahma was Mahatma Gandhi, Vishnu was Jawaharlal Nehru
and Shiva was Jinnah", Ramesh told reporters here. PTI